he told the parliament it will be in touch with his counter parts to bring peter gresta home. the parents of peter have been speaking about the heartache of that verdict. in australia. >> the family members of peter were united in disbeef as they walked into the australian media. it had been just hours since the verdict was handed down in the cairo court. >> this family is certainly determined to battle on. journalism is not a crime. or you should all be behind bars. it is as simple as that. our son peter is an award winning journalist. he is not a criminal. he is not a criminal. >> this will be a hard time for me, but i know he will get through it, and mike and andrew, they'll support him, and he'll be okay. shull probably he will get through it, and he will be fine. >> speaking to al jazeera afterwards they were still coming to terms with the decision, but smoke of their determination to continue to fight. >> we just can't see it. that peter is in jail and is locked up. and now he's been massed as a criminal, and that's very difficult. >> doing his job. >> the fate has been

the trial of peter gresta, mohammed fami and behar mohammed was adjourned until june 5th.hey have been imprisoned in egypt for 156 days. the three are accused of conspiring with the outlawed muslim brotherhood. al jazeera rejects those charges and demands their immediate release. nicole johnston has more on today's hearings. >> reporter: this is shabin a shabin al kum's central prison. video smuggled out shows how cramped it is. the toilets are filthy and there aren't enough to go around. the cells are small and dirty. there is very little natural light. families of prisons hearsay guards attacked inmates. >> the criminal police stormed the prison and assaulted the detainees, battering and electrocuting them, disconnecting power and water from their cells causing grave injuries, namely 20 with serious wounds and fractures. >> the families have been told an official investigation into the assault will be carried out. thousands of i hopemates are now on a one-week hunger strike. a group called the victims' center for human rights says the prisoners are protesting against the

the trial of peter gresta, mohammed famy and byar mohammed have been adjourned until june 5th. they have i am priseensed for 1 days. they are accused of conspiring wi with the outlawed miss lim brotherhood. al jazeera rejects those charges and are demanding their immediate release. a report on the egypt's media crackdown. >> this has become an all too familiar scene in egypt. al jazeera journalists in court. they are not the only ones. >> they shut down t.v. station, raided offices of media outlets and detained more than 65 journalists since july and in addition, they prosecuted -- pescuted a lot of the activists. this is the funeral of a reporter shot in the back of the head while covering a protest in march. he script's minister of interior has since agreed to provide 100 bullet proof vests for journalists covering violent demonstrations. jailed media workers include freelance photographer mahmoud abuzayed. he has been intora prison since august last year and hasn't been charged. secular activists have been targeted. one est most well known ones is m macmad, the leader of the

i did my best to put it to the president that as an australian journalist, peter gresta would have simply been reporting on the events that he saw before him. he certainly would have had no interest in promoting the muslim brotherhood, he simply would have been providing his view as with what he thought was the story of the day, because that's what australian journalists do. >> other aljazeera journalist being tried, sentenced to 10 years in prison in absentia. what type of action is the australian government planning? >> in the initial stages, we have heard pretty soon after the verdict was handed down, a few minutes after, that decision was delivered in the courtroom in cairo. we heard from the australian foreign minister julie bishop delivering a strongly worded statement. she really did appear quite shaken at the start of her address to the media and to the rest of the community interests in what she had to say. she was asked whether there could be some sort of immediate action taken by this government perhaps in the form of recalling or sending the egyptian ambassador to australia ba

the head of the schmidt he was with police officers when they arrested al jazeera correspondent peter gresta and producer mohammed famy. >> led the lawyer to question how he could be described as an independent witness. another member of the technical panel was challenged to identify a single report that was edited to show the muslim brotherhood in a positive light. he replied: i can't remember. the lawyers also pointed to the fact that written statements by prosecution witnesses were identical, word for word, but their submission in court contradicted them. this court case is part of the broad media crackdown in egypt. >> shut down t.v. station, raided offices of media outlets and detained more than 65 journalists since july and in addition, they prosecuted -- puscuted a lot of the activists. >> former head of the military, el sisi appears set to within the election. >> he will have a lot of difficulty with international community getting aid getting investment, and having legitimacy to say that he is running the country toward a democratic government unless he releases all of the journalis